Jaja is here!

"Know what, Mommy? Daddy 'nother big trip. Jaja here visit. Jaja, Mommy, Timo, baby 'tee-tas."

This has been a common refrain (is that redundant?) from Timo over the last week. It's never easy to say good-bye to Daddy and send him off to faraway lands (this time for 2 weeks to Tanzania, Ethiopia and Germany) - even though we DO love to daily study the big map book and look where Daddy is - but happily on this trip we are able to have Jaja with us!! 

Easter Sunday was warm, sunny and windy. In the afternoon we went to a nearby neighborhood park. Welcome to Colorado, Jaja, and don't forget your sunglasses! In fact this is Mom's fifth visit (including when she accompanied us on the road trip when we first moved here), so she knows what to expect now. On the other days of her visit so far we have been pretty low-key so far, playing in the backyard, taking walks in the neighborhood, cooking up a variety of dishes, and me being able to run errands during naptime. Wow, that's a treat.

Jaja seems to be quite impressed with her hunky, active, smiley grandson. This evening she was helping him sit and play with a ball, and suddenly he was sitting on his own for a few seconds at a time! And drooling all down his chest! And then swinging woa lurching whoops backwards, and being caught in Jaja's arms.

A quiet moment with Jaja, looking at photos of cousins.

We still have another whole week together - hurrah! Still need to make a trip to the Dutch Bakery... and the Pioneers museum... and Garden of the Gods.